'Like A Flaming Basketball': Meteorite May Be To Blame For California House Fire



Officials are investigating the possibility that a meteorite seen in the California sky may have ignited a house fire. KCRA’s Michelle Bandur reports.
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47 comments

  1. Insurance will be like…
    Nope…sorry no act of outer space coverage

  2. 😝NASA just deflected an asteroid..
    Bits came 🏡

  3. Star Link is starting to phone home, I mean meteors! What a better time to take control of a massive media company. Right on time. Probably projected that satellites, oops, I mean meteors would be raining down on the publics homes… Time to get control of the media company. Nothing to see here, just a meteor, and a media company doing meteor and company things. Yep. That's it. Nothing more.

  4. For people asking why NASA didn't give the heads up. Because to be an astronaut all you need is
    1. Scuba diving experience
    2. 33rd degree in freemasonry
    3. Ability to lie

  5. No meteorite was recovered? Weird.

  6. Somebody loan this man a bath ffs…

  7. Despite the economic downturn, I'm so happy☺️I have been earning $60,200 returns from my $10,000 investment every 13 days

  8. The meteor is right in your house dude one giant meteor cash!!!!!!!

  9. Elon musk satellite or piece of rocket for sure.

  10. The start of the Apocalypse
    God is going to wipe us out there's too much sin in this world.

  11. I am so humbled by this research.

  12. “Nothing to see here folks, just a meteorite, yup just a meteorite, nothing else top secret”

  13. Scott Manley says "No, A Meteorite Did Not Burn Down This House" https://youtu.be/8vmOngK18xg

  14. Despite the economic crisis, this is Still a good time to invest in Gold_and_Crypto

  15. this guy should definitely buy the Powerball

  16. What about the killing of people in Haiti, Shouldn't that be front page new

  17. Years ago, a meteor went through the trunk of of a car on Long Island…..for a while the car was in the American Museum of Natural History

  18. Billy you better find that rock fast!

  19. Absolute Nonsense! If you could see the plasma trail then that was 45-60 miles high in the upper atmosphere which means that meteorite landed hundreds of miles away. Meteorites are also cold to the touch when they fall to the ground and can immediately be picked up by your hand. That fireball you see is the air reaching very high temperature, only the outer surface of the meteor gets hot which quickly cools back down once it's velocity slows down.

  20. Oh crap….. it's starting

  21. Who picked up the meteor? It may be worth thousands… Hope they figure it out…belongs to that couple.

  22. One was flaming in here in Florida early this morning. I was worried that it would start a fire as it was literally flaming below 1000 ft

  23. In the middle of no where….right on your house?!

  24. This is BS, the meteor/meteorite was tracked to land (if it didn't burn up before) 150 miles away from this guys home!

  25. If it’s space junk they will lie and make you believe it’s a meteorite. If it’s a meteorite they will lie and take it from you to claim whatever it is. Government smh.

  26. The good space and engineering channel Scott Manley showed that the meteorite made landfall away from the house.

  27. Someone should tell him he already won the lottery. If the fire was indeed caused by a meteor impacting the house, then he has already won the lottery. Those things can be worth tens of thousands of dollars to individuals, educational and scientific institutions.

  28. house struck by a meteorite? we have covered it! because here ay farmers we know a thing or two because we have scene a thing or two!

  29. He already has the lottery if he chooses to sell that meteorite

  30. I hope he knows that thing is worth millions. I also hope he accompanies the investigators while they sift through the rubble of his burnt out home and watches them like a hawk. There is nothing to stop any one of them (or local government) from pocketing the meteorite, and banking on the average person's ignorance to claim it " likely burned up in the atmosphere…" Also, meteorites are no more dangerous/radioactive than rocks on Earth.

  31. It was either the meteorite,or the cigarette but he threw on the floor after he drank those 12 Pabst Blue Ribbons.

  32. Unlikely the two events are related

  33. It was them there north koreans…

  34. I hope they're able to find the meteor and get big $ for it.

  35. Try to find that meteor lol. It'll pay for everything

  36. Tell the guy to dig through the debris, and once he finds the meteorite, he'll be able to rebuild and still be rich.

  37. Crazy. Respectfully to everyone’s beliefs out there, makes me feel like we really do all go with God 😳 you really never know, jeeeeeeez. automatic thing to be more grateful for huh??? Like well, no burning hunks of space junk hit me or my humble abode today so… i guess we’re OK 😳🤷‍♀️☄️

  38. “I saw Satan fall from heaven…”